Posted on 06/05/2021 5:40:35 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called the cyberattack suffered by the Colonial Pipeline Company “an act of war” and said the U.S. should respond by killing whoever was responsible for it.
“We ought to pass a law immediately that makes this kind of hacking subject to a death penalty, and the law should include a provision that the president, through a judicial process, should be able to order the killing of anybody overseas who’s doing this,” Mr. Gingrich, a Republican, said Monday on Fox News while speaking about the ransomware attack that recently disrupted the Colonial Pipeline system.
Mr. Gingrich, 77, who presided over the House during the Clinton administration, suggested others will feel similarly if the attack on Colonial leads to lingering disruptions.
Mr. Gingrich said. “It’s an act of war against the United States to do stuff like this,” he added. “We need to react to it as an act of war, and the American people are going to look at their representatives and their senators and they’re going it say, ‘If you don’t fix this, your successor will. Because I’m not going to put up with it, and I’m going to put up with you if you don’t fix it.’”
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NSA gave back door to a foreign player, got to keep the money train rolling for the Big Guy and all the little rats.
If you received the crypto-currency payoff, you’re not an innocent bystander.
Stealing the POTUS election was arguably an act of war.
I don’t know the background. I do know what O’Biden is. And I know what the ComDems are.
This thing will play out, with US or without US.
does that make newt a cyber-neocon?
I don’t know.
If you mean GOPe? Probably.
Remember Obozo and his drone strikes? Were there big opposition to those? Yes the targets were probably Terrorists.
It is a mistake for the US to target foreign nationals in their own country without proof and cooperation from the country.
I suggested a similar idea to a colleague of mine. He, having a couple of decades more experience than I to the field, said, “too easy to make it look like another actor.”
Newt is right. Problem is that Hackers live in Russia. So they are protected for the time being. If they travel somewhere, let’s say Dubai, our Navy Seals should assassinate them.
Yes. projecting false IP.
Correct, President Trump did not do that. But Obozo did. And got little or no criticism.
Good point.
Maybe the Justice Department?
The FBI?
The Biden administration? Congress?
Who do we have that you trust?
Works for me.
**NEWS FLASH***
That Newt is clearly unaware that is reality. Nations do this to each other all the time including Allies.
It is well known that China is the #1 nation that attempts to hack different nations all the time.
Although with Colonial Pipeline I do not think it was China. I strongly suspect it was 1 of our Alphabet Agencies.
This attack along with the meat hack plays clearly into the World Economic Forum and the Globalists hands that that want people off of petroleum and meat.
What’s funny is these so called, “environmentalists” are the biggest CO2 contributors to the planet. Yet most of them are tax exempt.
Petroleum is not just used in cars, trucks, planes, ships, etc... It’s used in our computers, smart phones, tablets, clothes, etc....
Yep. I would love to see the movie in which a team of former special forces can go around the world and take out the problems.
I think that is a great idea if people can be identified.
Paying a bounty might get people to get them.
I have said for years that hackers should be treated no differently than Pirates were treated back in the 18th century.
And I am not joking. I would even consider tarring their bodies and placing them in cages outside technology conferences.
It may someday come to that.
firing squad! I’m for it!
“RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA” would be a good soup brand, served over romen.
....until they get it....if they get it...
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Russians/ Iranians backed by Chicoms and Norks did this .
Russian public propaganda outlets along with those in the dark web have not only admitted to doing this they’re bragging it the Russians, with the help of Edward Snowden, are developing advanced cyber Spatnutz terrorists units.
It’s cyber special-forces who are linked up to the KBG/FSB cyber unit command of the Kremlin cyber-force extension.
Biden is allowing this happen, as he’s tasked as part of the great Russia-U.S. reset in making sure that they are back to being an energy/oil dominate super power once more.
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